The Great Use Less Water Hunt

gromituk

Oh look - another person mysteriously joining and promoting this product with their first posting. What a co-incidence. :rolleyes:

Dora_the_Explorer_5

Every cloud has a silver lining. If we have a serious water shortage this year I'm looking forward to reading the creative graffiti that will be written in the dust on vehicles

Ken68

I had it on my van for years, Dora.....Also in white.

Aril

A couple of small tips but it all helps I guess!
-Keep a bottle of water in the fridge so you have it to hand rather than running the tap unnecessarily
-use the water from boiling eggs on your houseplants
-use dirty water from fish tank on plants-rich in nitrogen and phosphorous
-use the water from cooking veg for stocks, soups [or potato water in the bread maker]
Aril

chickadee

Aril wrote:

-use dirty water from fish tank on plants-rich in nitrogen and phosphorous

Thanks Aril,

I didn't know about this, but really it stands to reason that there will be natural fertilizer in fish tank water doesn't it? Yuk!! :eek:

I'll do this in future.

t8769

Whenever I go to a restaurant or petrol station, I always adjust the toilet cistern, to save about 2 litres per flush. It still flushes fine.

As I've already done about 150, and many of them are very well used, I reckon I'm saving at least 11,000 litres per day. Sone petrol station toilets are flushed 50 times a day, that's 30,000 litres a year saved in one toilet.


You don't need a special bag to adjust a toilet, just adjust the bolt deciding what level of water to stop at.

rubix_76

pavlovs_dog wrote:

i think baths are not necessarily a bad thing. for one, it depends on how deep you run them, as the deper you run them, the more water you use.

Use the same rules for baths as you do in cooking. Just enough water to cover the vegetables

That's OK for us blokes, what about the Ladies :rotfl:

What happens if you have meat too, if you know what I mean !!! :rotfl: Sorry, crude I know, but I couldn't resist.

MALCNESS

How about washing the car while its raining? all you need then is the soap

jonifen

MALCNESS wrote:

How about washing the car while its raining? all you need then is the soap

If its raining heavily, then I can't see any reason why that wouldn't work!

glennw

MALCNESS wrote:

How about washing the car while its raining? all you need then is the soap

Not only that, but you save time in rinsing, and leathering to remove scalemarks. Done it for years. Neighbours think I'm mental...